#abandon

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. ↗

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. ↗

— Dorothy Stang

#any #aspire #battle #better #better life

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #cars #depression #during #garage

I've never abandoned the novel. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #never #novel

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. ↗

— George Sutherland

#comfort #constitution #may #pinch #provisions

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#across #arsenic #clean #clean up #clean water

We are not going to abandon Iraq. ↗

— Zalmay Khalilzad

#going #iraq